M 5.6 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 06 Sep 2021 08:19 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1284726
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -58.8058 , -25.2332
Event Date: 06 Sep 2021 08:19 UTC
06 Sep 2021 06:19 Local
Exposed Population: No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 06 Sep 2021 13:56 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000f8gz Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),